Re: [pkix] a question of cert (and OCSP) extension syntax

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Tue, 31 March 2015 15:18 UTC

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On Mar 31, 2015, at 8:03 AM, Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> wrote:
> ASN.1 processing is needed to get the value of the OCTET STRING from the extension, so I do not understand the point you are trying to make.

At the beginning of the thread, it seemed like the issue was *encoding* the values, not decoding them. If the application has a PKIX decoder that can extract an extension, that does not mean that it already has an ASN.1 encoder. However, I'm not actively following TRANS so I might be missing something.

--Paul Hoffman